was Born there my Sister still lives there.


This happened to my Sister last week

Report of a vicious attack and robbery at 7 Kew Drive, Highlands at approximately 7 pm on Monday, 29th November 2004.

Georgina McWilliams (Report)

My friend Lynne Hulley had popped in to show me her new Bed linen, we where sitting chatting in the Lounge, I got up and locked the back door, and get us a glass of wine each.

We where in a very deep discussion, we did not have the TV on or a radio it was very quiet, then all of a sudden, several black men came into the lounge, A hand was put over my face and I was forced onto my face on the ground and my hands bound with rope and one of my husbands ties. I was in a completely dazed state of shocked, could not actually take in what was happening. I kept telling them that they must take every thing in the house but please do not hurt us. One of the men (six in all) kept telling me to lie down and be quiet, he was more concerned that we should be quiet as the one with the Panga was very frantic (Looked like he was on drugs) was very happy to hit us with it if we moved or said anything. I was being asked repeatedly where the money was (Forex). When I said I had no forex, I was hit by the man with the panga on my left leg by my knee ( I did not even realize this had happened till I saw all the blood), There where two men by Lynne as she had started to shout at them and they were attacking her but I could not see or help as I was held down. They forced us from the lounge to the bedroom, that had been total ransacked every draw & cupboard had been tipped out on to the floor.

They forced Lynne and myself on to the floor again. One of the bedrooms I had locked off as the owner of the house had left some of her belongings with me, for when she is settled so that arrangements could be made to send them to the UK.
They wanted the Key but I could not find it as they had turned out every thing in the room, and at that stage I did not know where anything was, One of the men came at me full force with the broom stick and hit me in the back. I was beaten with a baton on the buttocks as they wanted the key to the room also wanted the forex, they where very angry that there was no forex. They broke the door down to the locked bedroom and took things out of the room.

The next thing I remember was they were all talking, the one with the panga wanted to kill us, but after some argument and several minutes we where pushed in to the Bar, Lynne was asked where her Car keys were and what buttons to press to get in, they also wanted a gate control so I gave it to them.
They then locked us unto the bar and took all keys so that we could not get out. We then untied each other as best we could.
I could hear them talking, and was so scared that they would come back that I jammed the bar stools between the bar and the door so that they could not get back in.
We waited till we could not hear them, then We broke the window in the bar to try and call the security guard from the next door neighbours, as I know they do have one, but to no avail. We could not stay in there as we where both cut badly. I had tied the necktie round my leg as a tourniquet, but Lynne was cut much more than I was. We had to get out.
There is a wooden partition between the bar and the dining room that we eventually broke down and crawled out. I pressed the panic alarm.

Time Security phoned and I screamed at them to get an Ambulance to the house, and then phoned people to come and help, Time Security phoned back ( Lynne answered the phone) to say that they did not have a vehicle in the area. Wonderful response team what do we pay for???
A friend arrived with a riffle, to find a Time Security Guard at the Gate too scared to come in as he was by himself.
Two Police Officers from Highland Police Station arrived One woman Officer & one Male, at about the Same time that Mars arrived the Police Officers tried to get information from us but we where very traumatized by this stage and just wanted to get to the hospital. ( I had shut down even now a lot of the events are very sketchy and I really don’t want to remember, Lynne has a better recollection of the full details.
We where attended to by Mars they where very efficient , and took us to Avenues Clinic at approximately 11pm very difficult to be exact as we had no watches.
We where at Avenues Clinic from about 11.20 and left there at around 4 am.
When we arrived we where the only people there, we had to wait for the Doctor to attend us, also very difficult to put a time to it, but we waited for what seamed like ½ to ¾ of an hour.
We had too fill in several forms (More concerned with being paid than attending to our needs) filled in what our allergies are (both Lynne and myself are allergic to Penicillin & Sulpher based Drugs) eventually the doctor came he attended to Lynne’s Panga cuts very deep on both knees.
After stitching Lynne up he disappeared for about ¾ of an hour (Did he go for tea & toast??) Came back and started on my knee again a very deep cut on the knee, we both had to have two lots of stitching internal, I presume the muscle, and then the skin was stitched. He looked at my back and buttocks where I had been beaten asked me if I could lift my arm, which I did, that’s OK he said.
We where not sent for X Rays Lynn’s face had been punched the back of my head had been hit with a blunt instrument . He stitched us up and left, we where then given a prescription each both where for Stop Payn, & Penicillin (why bother to tell them that we where allergic to it)
All the staff then disappeared, we had to ask for wheel chairs to be bought to us so that we could get to Boydens car, an attendant wheeled one towards us and then just pushed it to Boyden and left, we had no help from the hospital staff to get to our car.

We have to be thankful that we where not raped, and our cuts and bruises will heal. But our mental anguish will go on for a long time. My Husband was in Dubai, and I am sure that he is feeling not only guilt for not being here, but anger & hopelessness, he is so upset, he comes back today and all I want is for his arms to be around me and hold me.

We are so thankful for wonderful friends, but this letter/Statement is being sent as a warning to all,

WE HAVE TO BE MORE AWARE OF WHAT IS GOING ON. WE HAVE TO BEEF UP OUR SECURITY. WE HAVE TO PUT OUR ALARMS ON AS SOON AS WE GET HOME IN THE EVENINGS. THIS HAPPENED AT 6.30/7.00 p.m.
Please Look after your self and Families we all are very sympathetic to what happens to others,
Always thinking that we are alert, WE ARE NOT!!!!!!

Love

Georgina McWillams

Have not been able to put pics, but the front of my knee is similar to Lynne’s. My right calf muscle has been hacked at with the blunt Panga very badly bruised, with superficial cuts.
My Back and Buttocks have been beaten with a broom and a batton again very badly brused, for some reason the pics did not come out.



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Report of a vicious attack and robbery at 7 Kew Drive, Highlands at approximately 7 pm on Monday, 29th November 2004.

Lynne Hulley’s Report.
I had visited my friend Georgina, at the above address (which she rents from a mutual friend who is overseas at present). We were sitting in the lounge having a glass of wine and chatting, when six black men suddenly appeared in front of us all armed with various items, which they wielded as weapons. The thing I cannot understand is that, we didn’t hear anything when they broke the burglar bars in the back bedroom, and the one who gained entry must have walked down the passage to the back door and let the others in. I though I was actually having a nightmare, as they just popped up in front of us. One had a screwdriver, another a broken broomstick, another a metal bar, and the one holding me had a blunt panga (which has since been recovered from the boot of my car and handed over to highlands police). I was really shocked and started shouting at them to leave us alone and get out of the house. Two of the men grabbed us and tried to put cloths over our faces, and the tall, fuzzy haired one holding me tried to strangle me. He actually made me black out for a minute or two, but on coming round I struggled with him and bit and kicked him, whereupon he used his blunt panga and hacked at my legs and also at my friends legs. The panga man wanted to damage me severely and hacked at both my knees. They then bound our hands (my hands were tied in front of me, but Mrs. McWilliams’s hands were tied very tightly behind her back) with some ties they had either found or brought along for this purpose. They proceeded to ransack the lounge, taking the decoder, and the DVD, but the TV was too heavy for them to lift. They then made us go down the passage to the main bedroom, and when I told them I couldn’t walk because my knees were broken they dragged me down the passage to the main bedroom where the tall one dressed in black again hit both of us with the panga and the other short light complexioned one hit Georgina with his stick across her buttocks and her back using all his force. I asked him why he had to hit her, and said don’t do that, please leave her alone, which he did. He seemed more sympathetic than the others. They demanded Forex, but when we did not have any, the big brave panga man stamped on my stomach, making me void my bowel, which was very mortifying to me. They then proceeded to pull everything out of the cupboards, helping themselves to whatever took their eye. They brought our handbags into the bedroom and proceeded to share out all the money they had found between them, disdainfully discarding the $500 notes. I had $1m in my purse as I had been to the bank earlier that day.
Then they dragged us into the second bedroom, where they threw us on the floor and took various items from that room which Mrs. McWilliams will list. They also broke off the bottom off the door of the locked third bedroom in where the owner of the house’s things were stored. They helped themselves to those items also. Having taken all they wanted they shoved all their loot into various sports bags and then they made us walk back down the passage to the bar, where they locked us in. The light complexioned one unlocked the door and shoved my car keys under my nose demanding to know which button to use to start my car and asking for the remote to get out of the gate. I showed him what to do and then he shoved us back into the bar room and relocked the door and drove away in my car with all the stolen goods. We were bleeding profusely and thoroughly traumatized after the thieves had taken over three hours to loot the house. After waiting for some minutes, we undid the ties and rope binding our hands. We then broke the bar windows and threw glasses through the window, all the time screaming loudly to try and attract the attention of the domestics or the neighbours. We had absolutely no response from this action, so we forced our way though the partition wall with a chair, which luckily for us was constructed from wooden board, making an opening large enough to crawl through. Once we were out of the bar we went back down the passage when Georgina pressed the alarm to summons the instant response team.
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We then phoned my husband and a male friend (who has a gun) to come to our assistance. The security company called back to say that they had no vehicle in the vicinity to assist us, so I shouted that we were bleeding to death, and they should get the police and an ambulance to us urgently. Every one seemed to arrive at the same time, the “not too instant response team”, together with the police and ambulance and my husband and his friend with the gun. By this time we had lost a lot of blood and were feeling very weak and sore and all we wanted to do was get to a hospital to get stitched up, so we unable to make a statement to the male and female police officers who arrived at the scene. I am very happy to report that the anti-hijack button on my car went into operation after the thieves had driven only about 3 km, and they had to abandon it as the engine shut down, and some of the less valuable items were found in the vehicle.